Bob Haney, the great writer of comics, cartoons and many other things, was born 100 years ago today, March 15th 1926! I first encountered him in 1987 as a writer of several really great episodes of Thundercats, with a very distinctive style of dialogue completely different from the stories written by anyone else, an avoidance of the usual comedy everyone-laughs endings and a whole lot of suspense and excitement almost unmatched in the generally thrilling and excellent cartoon!
When I subsequently found he'd written a lot of superhero comics in the olden days, I was similarly delighted by the likes of Metamorpho and his wide-ranging other works - he really was a creative genius, and everybody should be celebrating his centenary today!
(Yes, I know it's mothers' day, but did your mother ever write anything as good as "Dimension Doom"? I didn't think so.)
Here's a nice little pen-portrait of Bob Haney, from the Brave and the Bold issue number 50, in 1963 - DC comics still weren't generally crediting the creators in those days, but you'd still occasionally get these nice little glimpses behind the scenes of the people who made them!
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